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#193
Originally Posted by pipeline View Post
Attack the individual(s) who speaks ill of any aspect/assessment about the 'community'? I don't recall any mention to any of your names in his post.. yet your reply quotes him and responds as if he did.
Attack? Perhaps you could show me the attack in my post; I missed it. (I won't presume to speak for the others, but some elaboration on some of theirs might be helpful as well.) The statement you quoted was explaining where the rest of my response comes from. It really doesn't make horribly much sense when you take it out of context, but I even so I don't think it constitutes an attack.

As for who was named; my name was not invoked, I concede. Which is relevant, how?
The comment was addressed to
people related to communities that claim to value "freedom" as a fundamental tenet
who are
utterly committed to constraining the editorial options of [itT].
So the first clause would include everyone who posted in this thread; the second, as an accusation of things that didn't happen, doesn't literally apply to any of us. But plainly it was intended to apply to some of us; I think it's reasonable to construe it as intended for all the opponents of Reggie's original download section.

One who paints with a broad brush is likely to receive defenses from many directions; if pa28pilot's goal was to target only certain individuals, listing their names would have been appropriate.

Doesn't that make you feel empty... like saying 'you love lamp' ? No wait that would be like defending the lamp when someone says it sucks.
Huh? Not really.
Or perhaps someone did that you in another post and you replying to the wrong thread?
Wait a minute, none of us named you; I'll bet someone did this to you someplace else and you accidentally replied here...
 

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